Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- From: Jeff Biggus <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:23:10 -0600
On Nov 23, 2003, at 4:37 PM, Mark Lilback wrote:
I remember this question being asked at Stump the Experts at WWDC a
few years back. The official answer from the Apple gurus was that
the .m stood for "messages".
The expert who answered the question was Steve Naroff, who wrote
the original front-end support for Objective-C for gcc. Someone came up
to challenge his response and and he pointed out that made the decision
to use .m as the suffix.
But, was that before Bruce Cox was using the .m suffix back in the
mid-80s? In other words, did he simply decide to stick with Cox's .m
suffix in the gcc? I assume we're trying to get to the reason the first
guy who used the suffix picked .m, since it appears it means different
things to different people. (It's clear, by contrast, that the .mm
suffix refers to M&Ms. ;-)
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